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SHIM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: shimmed    , shimming   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("shim" is a kind of...):

wedge (something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb shim

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